Here are Roman and Grecian relics; fragments of vases from Herculaneum; and the far-famed Egyptian sarcophagus brought over by Belzoni.The latter is made of one piece of alabaster, nearly ten feet long.It is inscribed all over with hieroglyphics, and cost Sir John a large sum.…Cited from Young Americans Abroad, by Various

The young man stood for a while looking down at the beautiful figure of alabaster.Then he touched the lips with the golden tip of the wand.…Cited from Twilight Land, by Howard Pyle

There stood guards in armor of brass and silver and gold.But they were without life -- they were all of stone as white as alabaster.Thence they passed through room after room and apartment after apartment crowded with courtiers and nobles and lords in their robes of office, magnificent beyond fancying, but each silent and motionless -- each a stone as white as alabaster.…Cited from Twilight Land, by Howard Pyle

When he came back he held up an alabaster cup.Cited from The Best Short Stories of 1917, ed. by Edward J. O'Brien

Many of these are very beautiful, and often as white as alabaster.There are other large rooms, but they possess no peculiar interest.…Cited from Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills, by Luella Agnes Owen

D'Artagnan stopped at the door of the chapel, to avoid disturbing her, and also to endeavor to find out who was the pious friend who performed this sacred duty with so much zeal and perseverance.The unknown had hidden her face in her hands, which were white as alabaster.From the noble simplicity of her costume, she must be a woman of distinction.…Cited from The Man in the Iron Mask[The Novel]Dumas, Pere #28

She pointed with her small alabaster hand to the left wing.Alberto vanished as per request, while Fidelia, with well-affected calmness, commenced humming an opera air, and fanning herself.…Cited from Round the Block, by John Bell Bouton

She was the wife of the Twelfth Dynasty ruler Amenemhet III and was buried in his pyramid at Dahshur.Her name is so far only known from one object, an alabaster vessel found in her burial.She had the titles king's wife, member of the elite and mistress of the two countries.…

He was knighted in 1942 whilst in internment.Alabaster retired at the end of the war and returned to England.…

D'Artagnan stopped at the door of the chapel, to avoid disturbing this woman; and also to endeavor to see who was the pious friend who performed this sacred duty with so much zeal and perseverance.The unknown concealed her face in her hands, which were white as alabaster.From the noble simplicity of her costume, she must be a woman of distinction.…Cited from The Vicomte de Bragelonne, by Alexandre Dumas

These pieces were then assembled into the building that is seen today in the Karnak Open Air Museum.The White Chapel is made of a hard white rock called alabaster.Its columns hold reliefs of a very high quality, which are hardly seen elsewhere at Karnak, and depicts Pharaoh Senusret being crowned and embraced by Amun, Horus, Min and Ptah.…

At last a foundation-stone of the new heaven was to be laid!In a week's time Mike would be working at one of the alabaster walls.Perhaps in two years' time, perhaps even in a year, with good fortune, the roof would be on, the door wreathed with garlands, and a modest little heaven ready for occupation.…Cited from Young Lives, by Richard Le Gallienne

After the war he moved to Nottingham and continued his studies in sculpture at Nottingham College of Art.In 1953 he opened his first studio and produced much of his work in alabaster.The themes of his abstract forms were influenced by his experiences during World War II.…

The window-curtains were lace; each chair and sofa had its own particular veil of netting, or knitting.Great alabaster groups occupied every flat surface, safe from dust under their glass shades.In the middle of the room, right under the bagged-up chandelier, was a large circular table, with smartly-bound books arranged at regular intervals round the circumference of its polished surface, like gaily-coloured spokes of a wheel.…Cited from North and South, Elizabeth C Gaskell

Let me play the fool: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.Why should a man whose blood is warm within Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?Sleep when he wakes, and creep into a jaundice By being peevish?…Cited from It Can Be Done, by Joseph Morris, et al.

It was employed, for instance, in Assyrian sculpture.So some of the ancient alabaster is identical to the modern stone.Alabaster may be stained to disguise it, by being heated in various pigmentary solutions.…

Thy hair is like turquoise as thou comest forth from the Fields of Turquoise, thy hair is like unto the finest lapis-lazuli, and thou thyself art more blue than thy hair.Thy skin and body are like southern alabaster, and thy bones are of silver.…Cited from The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians, by E. A. Wallis Budge

You are a stranger, and perhaps do not know that the choir-leader is from Worms, and that they will keep him here if he will be content with four hundred florins a year.He is a charming man, and his hands are as white as alabaster.…Cited from German Classics of the 19th & 20th Centuries, Vol. VI, Ed. by Francke

Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?Cited from Shakspere, Personal Recollections, by John A. Joyce

And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard.And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.…Cited from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Mark Book 48